On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 11:02 +0100, LacaK wrote: > Yes, this is not primary question of database side, but db client > library api, which is used by SQLConnector to retrieve data. > For example in ODBC we use SQLGetData in LoadField method to retrieve > data from odbc interface. > And for example in case of MS SQL Server character data are retrieved in > current ANSI code page (in Windows of course, may be that for example in > *nix data are retrieved in UTF-8 naturaly) . > (AFAIK there is no universal way how to explicitly request character > encoding from ODBC interface)
Almost each DB-server has a setting to specify the encoding, which has to be added to the connection-string. > So it is true, that every sql connector is mandatory write character > data in UTF-8 ? > or can write in some native format (Ansi, UTF-16) ... but in this case > must somewhere write additional info about actual encoding. If you add a hook that converts this data, yes. (I woudn't do that, use the database-servers functionality instead) Joost. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
